Group Named to Study the Weather Page Two
A committee of the Arkansas Legislative Council was named to study possible changes in the Constitutional and Fiscal Agencies Fund. The fund, taking 3 percent of revenues to finance executive, legislative, and judicial branches plus Revenue and Administration departments, faces an estimated $106000 deficit this year. Proposals include raising fund allocations and transferring some departments to the General Services account for normal revenue distribution.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Legislative Council
Marcus Halbrook
Legislative Council
Council
General Services
Rockefeller decision seen as healthy for GOP in Arkansas
Charles T. Bernard of Barle Arkansas GOP vice chairman called Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller’s refusal to accept the party chairmanship a healthy sign. He said Rockefeller’s move to renounce a draft clears rumors, signals comeback potential, and shows Rockefeller will stay involved in party affairs. Bernard praised Rockefeller as a fine man who contributed to the party and state.
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Little Rock
Charles T. Bernard
Barle
Republican Party
GOP
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Bernard
IRS Offers Free Tax Calculations for Millions of Americans
The IRS will calculate income taxes free for up to 30 million filers earning no more than 20000 dollars, using standard deduction and only certain income types. A revised Form 1040 with separate instructions aims to ease filing. those who qualify can mail in W 2 forms and rely on the government to compute any owed tax or refunds with potential interest on underpayment or penalties on excessive refunds.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Hope Arkansas Star Appropriation Totals for 1971
County court justice funds show allocations ranging from 200 to 5 000 dollars with a final total of 86 293.18 dollars. The Hope Arkansas Star lists the year's appropriation amounts across several entries totaling 86 thousand dollars.
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Arkansas Crippled Childrens Home
Inez.Turner
Raymond Blackwood
Florence Crittentenome
Soil Conservation Office
Association of Arkansas Counties
Children's Service Division
Nashville man accuses L A police chief of malfeasance
Ray Tollett of Nashville testified he built wiretap devices for the Little Rock Police Department and charged Chief Gate Weeks with malfeasance. He filed suit in U S District Court at Texarkana to recover tape recordings from the FBI and seeks their return for use in a civil case. Tollett said Weeks denied illegal wiretaps and perjury allegations, while he pressed for Weeks' removal.
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Little. Rock
Ray Tollett
Nashville
Little Rock
Gate Weeks
Tallett
U.S. District Court
Texarkana
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Tollett
Hoover
Asst
John E. Arnold
Weeks
Obituaries for Medlock Prescott Hart Jester in Hope area
Obituary notices list Jack Medlock 72 of Paragould, service at Mitchell Funeral Home Paragould Friday at 2. Dossie Beatty Prescott, late Wilson Prescott, died in Houston Texas survived by son J B Prescott and daughters Rachael Berardi and Ruby Jean. Funeral Friday Forrest Park Funeral Home Houston burial in Forrest Park Cemetery. Mrs John Hart died in local nursing home, survived by several Hope relatives and funeral Friday at Ruggles Murry Arkadelphia. Mrs Ione Rodden Jester 46 of Prescott died Tuesday Baptist Church service Friday Boughton Baptist Church Piney Grove Cemetery burial.
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Jack Medlock
Hope
Paragould
Mitchell
Dossie Beatty Prescott
Wilson Prescott
Houston
Texas
Emmet
J.B. Prescott
Rachael Berardi
Ruby Jean
Forrest Park Funeral
Forrest Park Cemetery
Lacey Rowe
John Hart
Elmer Neighbors
Velma Cox
Newt Pentecost All of Hope
Ruggles-Murry Funeral Home
Arkadelphia
Ione Jester
Ione Rodden
Prescott
The
Baptist Church
Billy House
Glen Willis
James Jester
Susie Rodden
Blevins
Moby Rodden
Wesley Safford
Benton
Charles T. Campbell
Boughton Baptist Church
Piney Grove Cemetery
Witness Testimony Highlights My Lai Massacre Details
The testimony describes mass killings at My Lai on March 16 1968. Beardslee testified he entered with the third platoon and saw 15 to 20 women and children, all dead, with American GIs nearby. He noted possible helicopter gunship involvement and that Haeblerle photographed the dead.
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My Lai
Beardslee
May Lai
Daniel
George W. Larimer
Calley
Haeberle
Weather Elsewhere In Oklahoma Debate Over Resolution
Legislator criticizes Sar Ver for commenting on the resolution while seeming unaware of its content. Turner notes that if Ver understood the measure he would have welcomed it, implying a misinformed stance in the Oklahoma discussion.
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Ing
Sarver
Sar Ver
Oklahoma
Turner
Meat price report forecasts per person costs this year
The forecast notes 113 pounds per person for the year, up 2 percent from 1969. Pork consumption at 65.4 pounds, veal down, lamb steady, and chicken at 41.7 pounds, aided by higher meat prices. The report links consumer costs to farmers’ pay, with retail prices rising yet farmer share stable. Consumers expect 16.5 cents of each take home dollar spent on food, a 1989 level, with a potential pork price drop if margins align with recent hog-price cuts.
Bumpers to Keynote Arkansas Education Rally
Gov elect Dale Bumpers will headline the Arkansas Education Association rally at Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock, launching the AEA annual convention. The event aims to back the group’s push for a $30 million increase in the state education appropriation.
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Little Rock
Dale Bumpers
Robinson Auditorium
Arkansas Education Association
AEA
Opponents push for Senate to back a different farm bill
Senate opponents led by Sen. George McGovern press for House approval of a bill closer to the Senate version, saying the administration measure would cost farmers over a billion dollars by 1973. They warn of no new farm programs if lawmakers remain intransigent, citing Nov. 3 voter anger and urging reconsideration in conference. Budget details include raises for extension staff and welfare services, with a full breakdown on page two.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Senate
White House
George McGovern
South Dakota
House
McGovern
House-Senate
Welfare Department
NLR Police Protest Parole of Slayer
About 50 off duty North Little Rock officers plan to travel to Tucker Prison Farm Friday to oppose parole for James Dean Walker a Reno Nevada man serving a life term for slaying North Little Rock patrolman Jerrell Vaughan in 1963 A clemency hearing is set for 3 p m Friday Walker was denied parole last December and local officers organized against his release.
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North Little Rock
Tucker Prison Farm
James Dean Walker
Reno
Nev
Walker
Jerrell P. Vaughan
Fraternal
Order of Police
Woman Charged With Converting Funds At West Memphis Bank
Lorna Lu Rodgers of West Memphis bound over to the U S Grand Jury on charges of converting 21976 dollars from Bank of West Memphis to her own use while employed there between March 20 1969 and February 12 1970. Bond set at 2500 dollars. Capt John Gilbert, chapter president, said a bus will be chartered to attend the clemency hearing.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Lorna Lu Rodgers
West Memphis
U.S. Grand Jury
U.S
Marion Penix
Bank of
Penix
John Gilbert
Kiwanis Tour Highlights European Trip Photos
Hope Kiwanis Club met Tuesday as Mrs W M Sparks presented movies and remarks about her European tour with Kiwanian Mitchell Sparks. They visited London with their daughter Mary Jean and her family in 1969, staying three weeks in England and two weeks on the continent, traveling with their son-in-law connected to a major oil company.
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Hope Kiwanis Club
W.M. Sparks
Mitchell Sparks
Weather and Kiwanis meeting notes from Hope Arkansas
Experiment Station report notes 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Thursday with highs near 70 and lows around 35. Arkansas forecast calls for cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunder east half tonight and Friday morning, cooler west half, then decreasing clouds and cooler Friday with lows 30s to 40s and highs in the 50s to 60s. Kiwanis program featured Mrs. Sparks discussing Switzerland and Austria with scenic movies, arranged by Jim McKenzie. Next week will align with Farm City Week. Tuesday guests included Mrs. Henry Haynes Mrs. Jim McKenzie Crit Stuart Jr. and Jim Allen of El Dorado.
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Arkansas
Switzerland
Austria
Henry Haynes
Jim McKenzie
Crit Stuart, Jr
Hope
Jim Allen
el Dorado
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